Oh.  Hi.  I didn’t intend to let 2 weeks go by without posting.  But I think it was good for me.  So much has happened and I was really too busy to post.

Not a full week into my fast my sister came in for a visit and to help me go through Dad’s things.  As her visit approached I started to get really nervous about fasting while she was here.  I didn’t want her to feel like she had to eat the foods I was cooking and I knew she’d want to go out once or twice.  I prayed about it and really felt ok to break the fast for one of the three meals I’d eat each day while she was with us.  Two of the meals each day, as well as snacks, stayed DF friendly.

While Tanna was here, things were non-stop.  We immediately got to work cleaning out Dad’s dresser and closet.  After two days went by I started to really get nervous we would run out of time.  He didn’t have a ton of stuff, but there were lots of little things to go through.  Pins, police and security badges, photos, a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings from his time as a police man, my grandmother’s 7th grade report card from 1914 and a photo of her from when she was about 6 or 7, a century old.  Really neat finds.  Also, my dad saved a lot of stuff he shouldn’t have..like old mail so there was shredding to do too.  Once we went through everything and divided it all up, we got photos together to scan onto a disk so copies could be made. Fortunately we got it all done.

In our downtime in the evenings, we knitted.  She taught me how to purl and gave me the pattern for a ribbed cowl using the knit and purl stitches.  I didn’t think I’d finish it before she left, but I did!  I liked her needles and thick yarn so much, I went and bought some of my own so I could make another cowl.  Here’s the first one I made…

worn with my peacock pin handmade by me and my Jewelmint ring.  polish is Moxie by Zoya.

I made another one this weekend, I literally just finished sewing the ends together on it an hour ago.  I haven’t taken photos of it yet so I’ll share that with you later.

The other thing I mentioned I had coming up was the Supermarket Tour.  I did that on Saturday morning with two girls from my Bunco group.  I’m glad my first one was with people I knew and it turns out two was a good number of people to have on my first tour.  It was a lot of fun and I got feedback from both of them that they enjoyed their time with me and learned a lot so that was encouraging.  I may schedule another one for February and we’ll see where this goes.

Also I finally had some time this weekend to take some photos of my January Birchbox samples, Julep Maven polishes and record two new scarf videos so be looking for those this week.

Hope you all have been well!  Thanks to those of you who checked up on me and have prayed for me!